social meaning

基本解释

The third category, however, tied to social meaning, presents an extremely difficult set of challenges.
但第三類，由於關聯到社交涵義，所以是個極難的挑戰。
Includes "identificational meaning, expressive meaning, associative meaning, social meaning, and imperative meaning." (Lunwen)
包括“身份意義（identificational meaning）、表達意義、聯想意義（associative meaning）、社會意義和祈使意義（imperative meaning）。”
The layering of wrapping also has important social meaning―more wrapping means more politeness.
包裝的層數也具有重要的社交含義——層數越多，表示越客氣。
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She has studied the social meaning of American Sign Language as well as the Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language in Israel.
Following a transformation the study of which is not the concern of the social sciences but rather of biology and psychology, a crossing over came about from a stage where nothing had a meaning to another where everything possessed it.
這門學科竝不屬社會科學的範疇,而是屬於生物學，心理學，此種轉變是一種跨越，從一個什麽都沒有意義的時代到,一個每樣東西都能表達的時代的。
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Then you would likely see the earnings cap for social security removed, meaning everyone would pay social security on their entire earnings, not just salary but entire income.
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社會意義
It discusses in depth the relations between nationalities and the concept of welfare models and the social meaning of the degree of this correlation.
本章分析了基諾族和佈朗族的基本福利慣習即福利模式觀唸，深入討論了民族與福利模式觀唸的相關性及其相關強度的社會意義。
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社會意義
In journalism English, euphemism transfers the intention of journalist as well as its social meaning and cultural connotation.
新聞英語中的委婉語所表達的不僅僅是作者的意圖，還可能傳遞社會意義和文化內涵。